Pith Number

pith:3JFG4427

pith:2017:3JFG44272LAFCCN32SUKK6FI74

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Computing the Unique Information

Guido Mont\'ufar, Johannes Rauh, Pradeep Kr. Banerjee

arxiv:1709.07487 v3 · 2017-09-21 · cs.IT · math.IT

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3JFG44272LAFCCN32SUKK6FI74}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:02:18.458177Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

da4a6e735fd2c05109bbd4a8a578a8ff36ab6b532c746dbe7b473c27f42e4d65

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.07487 · arxiv_version: 1709.07487v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.07487 · pith_short_12: 3JFG44272LAF · pith_short_16: 3JFG44272LAFCCN3 · pith_short_8: 3JFG4427

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3JFG44272LAFCCN32SUKK6FI74 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: da4a6e735fd2c05109bbd4a8a578a8ff36ab6b532c746dbe7b473c27f42e4d65

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "070b77ffc88f0955856e8dd3026759625a9d8c1bfc18fbbfeee66d6976426461",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-21T18:42:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d4b87874c307d6a6650d04ffb238525c4c0d17af362ce187d6554cbd541c688a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.07487",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}